Patents by Inventor Shigemi Sato
Shigemi Sato has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10347450Abstract: This invention is a thermally actuated switch in which a sealed vessel contains a fixed contact and a heat-sensitive-plate assembly that has a structure in which a movable contact is anchored to one lengthwise end of a heat-sensitive plate, one end of a metal support is anchored to the other end of said heat-sensitive plate, and the heat-sensitive plate is then drawn. The heat-sensitive-plate assembly has a dish-shaped drawn section near the middle of the heat-sensitive plate and has folded sections between the area where the movable contact is anchored and the widthwise edges of the heat-sensitive plate and also between the area where the metal support is anchored and the widthwise edges of the heat-sensitive plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2013Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: UBUKATA INDUSTRIES CO., LTDInventors: Shigemi Sato, Yuji Adachi
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Publication number: 20160276119Abstract: This invention is a thermally actuated switch in which a sealed vessel contains a fixed contact and a heat-sensitive-plate assembly that has a structure in which a movable contact is anchored to one lengthwise end of a heat-sensitive plate, one end of a metal support is anchored to the other end of said heat-sensitive plate, and the heat-sensitive plate is then drawn. The heat-sensitive-plate assembly has a dish-shaped drawn section near the middle of the heat-sensitive plate and has folded sections between the area where the movable contact is anchored and the widthwise edges of the heat-sensitive plate and also between the area where the metal support is anchored and the widthwise edges of the heat-sensitive plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Shigemi SATO, Yuji ADACHI
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Publication number: 20150038807Abstract: A biological information detector is adapted to be attached to a user's body. The biological information detector includes a light-emitting part, a reflecting part, a light-receiving part, a processing unit and a support part. The light-emitting part is configured to emit light toward the user's body. The reflecting part is configured to be disposed in periphery of the light-emitting part and to reflect at least part of the light emitted by the light-emitting part toward the user's body. The light-receiving part is configured to receive light reflected at the user's body to produce a light reception signal. The processing unit is configured to process the light reception signal to produce biological information. The support part supports the light-emitting part. A thickness of the support part is within a range from 50 ?m to 1000 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Hideto YAMASHITA, Yoshitaka IIJIMA, Shigemi SATO
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Patent number: 8932228Abstract: An optical device including a contact part having a contact surface and an opposing surface, the contact surface coming into contact with a test subject and the opposing surface being opposite the contact surface; a support body installed on the opposing surface; a first element supported by the support body; and a second element disposed between the opposing surface and the support body; wherein one of the first element and the second element is a light-emitting element for emitting light towards a detection site of the test subject; another of the first element and the second element is a light-receiving element for receiving reflected light, the reflected light being light emitted by the light-emitting element and reflected at the detection site; and the contact part is formed from a material that is transparent with respect to a wavelength of the light emitted by the light-emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Shigemi Sato
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Patent number: 8902037Abstract: A thermally responsive switch includes a hermetically sealed container including a metal housing and a header plate, at least one conductive terminal pin hermetically fixed in a through hole, a fixed contact fixed-to the terminal pin in the container, a thermally responsive plate having one end connected via a support to an inner surface of the container and reversing a curvature direction at a predetermined temperature, and at least one movable contact electrically conductively secured to the other end of the thermally responsive plate. Each contact includes a silver-tin oxide-indium oxide system contact. The container is filled with a gas containing helium ranging from 50% to 95% so that an internal pressure of the container ranges from 0.3 to 0.6 atmosphere at room temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2007Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Ubukata Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihisa Ueda, Takeo Koike, Mitsuhiro Urano, Shigemi Sato
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Patent number: 8902038Abstract: A thermally responsive switch includes a container including a metal housing and a header plate, at least one conductive terminal pin inserted through a hole of the header plate, a fixed contact fixed to the terminal pin, a thermally responsive plate having one of two ends conductively connected via a support to an inner surface of the container and reversing a direction of curvature at a predetermined temperature, and at least one movable contact electrically conductively secured directly to the other end of the thermally responsive plate. Each contact is comprised of a silver-cadmium oxide system contact. The container is filled with a gas containing helium ranging from 50% to 95% so that an internal pressure of the container ranges from 0.38 atmosphere to 0.68 atmosphere at room temperature such that arc generated during opening of the contacts moves on surfaces of the contacts without spreading from the contacts.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2007Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Ubukata Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihisa Ueda, Takeo Koike, Mitsuhiro Urano, Shigemi Sato
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Publication number: 20140243689Abstract: A biological information detector is adapted to be attached to a user's body, and includes a light-emitting part, a reflecting part, a light-receiving part and a processing unit. The light-emitting part is configured to emit light toward the user's body. The reflecting part is disposed in a periphery of the light-emitting part to reflect at least a part of the light emitted by the light-emitting part toward the user's body. The light-receiving part is configured to receive light reflected at the user's body to produce a light reception signal. The processing unit is configured to process the light reception signal to produce biological information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideto YAMASHITA, Yoshitaka IIJIMA, Shigemi SATO
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Publication number: 20140228691Abstract: A biological information detector includes a light-emitting part, a first reflecting part, a light-receiving part, a contact part and a first wiring for the light-emitting part. The light-emitting part is configured to emit light directed at a detection site of a test subject. The first reflecting part includes a reflecting surface configured to reflect the light towards the detection site. The light-receiving part is configured to receive light having biological information from the detection site. The contact part is configured to transmit the light emitted by the light-emitting part, wherein the contact part has a contact surface which is configured to be in contact with the test subject and an opposite surface which is opposite to the contact surface. The first reflecting part and the first wiring are disposed on the opposite surface of the contact part and the light-emitting part is disposed on the first wiring.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shigemi SATO, Yoshitaka IIJIMA, Hideto YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20140228690Abstract: A biological information detector includes a light-emitting part, a reflecting part, and a light-receiving part. The light-emitting part is configured and arranged to emit light directed at a detection site of a test subject. The reflecting part is arranged at the periphery of the light-emitting part. The light-receiving part is configured and arranged to receive reflected light at the detection site including biological information. The light-emitting part and the light-receiving part are arranged not to overlap each other in plan view. A distance between the detection site and the light-emitting part is different from a distance between the detection site and the light-receiving part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shigemi SATO, Yoshitaka IIJIMA, Hideto YAMASHITA
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Patent number: 8758239Abstract: A biological information detector includes a light-emitting part subjected to emit a first light directed at a detection site of a test subject and a second light directed in a direction other than a direction of the detection site, a first reflecting part subjected to reflect the second light and directing the second light towards the detection site, a light-receiving part subjected to receive light having biological information, where the light produced by the first light and the second light is reflected at the detection site, and a second reflecting part subjected to reflect the light having biological information from the detection site and directing the light having biological information towards the light-receiving part.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hideto Yamashita, Yoshitaka Iijima, Shigemi Sato
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Patent number: 8740791Abstract: A biological information detector includes a first sensor unit for detecting composite information including biological information of a test subject and first noise information originating in external light, having a first light-emitting part for emitting toward there, a first light-receiving part for receiving it including the biological information, reflected there, and the light including the first noise information obtained from the external light, transmitted through there, and a first reflecting and leading part for reflecting the light including the biological and the first noise information, leading it to the first light-receiving part, and a second sensor unit for detecting second noise information originating in the external light, having a second light-receiving part for receiving the light including the second noise information, obtained from the external light and transmitted through there, and a second reflecting, leading part for reflecting the external light and leading it to the second lightType: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shigemi Sato, Yoshitaka Iijima, Hideto Yamashita
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Patent number: 8471874Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a display unit that has a plurality of pixel portions constituting a display area on a substrate and an image signal processing. The image signal processing circuit generates an image signal that sets a first subframe frame luminance of the pixel portion in a first subframe and sets a second subframe luminance of the pixel portion in a second subframe. The first subframe and the second subframe are obtained by partitioning a first frame of a first frame image signal. The first frame has a frame luminance. The first subframe luminance is higher than the frame luminance and the second subframe luminance is lower than the frame luminance.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2007Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shigemi Sato, Hidehito Iisaka, Hiroyuki Hosaka, Takashi Toyooka
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Patent number: 8390535Abstract: A stereo image display device includes an image display unit for displaying a parallactic image having a right-eye image and a left-eye image on a display plane, a parallactic image selecting unit for making only the right-eye image of the parallactic image reach the right eye of a viewer and making only the left-eye image of the parallactic image reach the left eye of the viewer to thereby make the viewer view a stereo image, an eye fatigue degree detecting unit for detecting the eye fatigue degree of the viewer, and an eye fatigue relaxation processing unit for carrying out eye fatigue relaxation processing for relaxing the eye fatigue of the viewer.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Shigemi Sato
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Patent number: 8284318Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first frame image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of first frame images constituting a moving image, a second frame image insertion section that generates a second frame image and inserts the second frame image including a white image between successive ones of the plurality of acquired first frame images, and a frame image output unit that outputs the plurality of first frame images with the second frame images inserted therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2007Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shigemi Sato, Michihiro Nagaishi
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Patent number: 8159526Abstract: A stereoscopic image display system includes: an image display unit that displays a parallax image composed of a right eye image and a left eye image; glasses having a transmission portion for a right eye transmitting only the right eye image of the parallax image and a transmission portion for a left eye transmitting only the left eye image of the parallax image; an inclination detection unit that detects an inclination of the glasses; a parallax image generation unit that generates the parallax image in accordance with a detection result from the inclination detection unit; and a display unit that displays the parallax image generated by the parallax image generation unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2005Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shigemi Sato, Akira Kubota, Tomio Sonehara
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Publication number: 20110237908Abstract: An optical device including a contact part having a contact surface and an opposing surface, the contact surface coming into contact with a test subject and the opposing surface being opposite the contact surface; a support body installed on the opposing surface; a first element supported by the support body; and a second element disposed between the opposing surface and the support body; wherein one of the first element and the second element is a light-emitting element for emitting light towards a detection site of the test subject; another of the first element and the second element is a light-receiving element for receiving reflected light, the reflected light being light emitted by the light-emitting element and reflected at the detection site; and the contact part is formed from a material that is transparent with respect to a wavelength of the light emitted by the light-emitting element.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Shigemi SATO
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Publication number: 20110196242Abstract: To provide a biological information detector or the like in which the detection accuracy or the measurement accuracy can be increased. A biological information detector includes a light-emitting part (14) for emitting light (R1) directed at a detection site (O) of a test subject; a light-receiving part (16) for receiving light (R1?) having biological information, the light (R1?) being light (R1) emitted by the light-emitting part (14) and reflected at the detection site (O); and a contact part (19) formed from a material that is transparent with respect to a wavelength of light (R1) emitted by the light-emitting part (14), the contact part (19) having a contact surface (19A) that makes contact with the test subject and an opposing surface (19B) disposed opposite the contact surface (19A). The light-emitting part (14) is installed on the opposing surface (19B).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shigemi SATO, Yoshitaka IIJIMA, Hideto YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20110166457Abstract: A biological information detector includes a first sensor unit for detecting composite information including biological information of a test subject and first noise information originating in external light, having a first light-emitting part for emitting toward there, a first light-receiving part for receiving it including the biological information, reflected there, and the light including the first noise information obtained from the external light, transmitted through there, and a first reflecting and leading part for reflecting the light including the biological and the first noise information, leading it to the first light-receiving part, and a second sensor unit for detecting second noise information originating in the external light, having a second light-receiving part for receiving the light including the second noise information, obtained from the external light and transmitted through there, and a second reflecting, leading part for reflecting the external light and leading it to the second lightType: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2010Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shigemi SATO, Yoshitaka IIJIMA, Hideto YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20110166456Abstract: A biological information detector includes a light-emitting part subjected to emit a first light directed at a detection site of a test subject and a second light directed in a direction other than a direction of the detection site, a first reflecting part subjected to reflect the second light and directing the second light towards the detection site, a light-receiving part subjected to receive light having biological information, where the light produced by the first light and the second light is reflected at the detection site, and a second reflecting part subjected to reflect the light having biological information from the detection site and directing the light having biological information towards the light-receiving part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2010Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideto YAMASHITA, Yoshitaka IIJIMA, Shigemi SATO
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Patent number: 7857916Abstract: A Co—Cr—Mo alloy fine wire has superior biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, wear resistance, processability, and flexibility. A manufacturing method and a planar body or the like formed by processing this fine wire. This is a fine wire of diameter of 200 micrometers or less comprising 26 to 31 weight % of Cr, 8 to 16 weight % of Mo, and the remainder of Co and inevitable impurities, in which the degree of roundness (minor diameter/major diameter) of lateral cross section is 0.6 or more, and the internal structure is uniform with the concentration ratio of high Mo concentration phase to low Mo concentration phase of 1.8 or less.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2004Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: NHK Spring Co., LtdInventors: Akihiko Chiba, Yoshiki Ono, Shigemi Sato, Michihiko Ayada, Takeshi Suzuki, Morimichi Kai, Masashi Sakamoto